Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] [indef pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd give anything for a sight of you in your pleasant civilian dress , and even the ‘ digs ’ would seem a veritable palace , compared with sand , and ragged Arabs , and khaki-drill shorts . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd give anything for a cup of tea . |
| 3 | I 'd promise anything for a leg over in those days , he used to say , but I 've got more about me now . |
| 4 | Confusion was muddling her responses , putting up barriers where she 'd give anything for a free and open path forward … |
| 5 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 6 | Harold Macmillan was by no means alone at that time in looking forward to a government of Mosley and the younger men who would do something for the country at last . |
| 7 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |